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...make the cut for the State Farm award, Oreskovich had to compete with 600 students for 50 fellowship slots...
...performance is paying off where it counts. In Iowa, site of the first presidential caucuses next February, the Des Moines Register ran an editorial on Kosovo and the various candidates under the headline MCCAIN 1, OTHERS 0. And in New Hampshire, where McCain hopes the state's famously independent-minded Republicans will reward his independence, a poll last week showed him leapfrogging over some of the lower-tier G.O.P. candidates into third place behind front runners George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole. The result has been a boost in direct-mail fund-raising receipts and a spike in interest among...
...stored fuel wiped out, all four vital rail and road links to Kosovo damaged. Never mind that 3 of every 4 bombs were falling on big, empty, static targets already hit. Alliance spokesmen were sure that new strikes on Milosevic's Tito-era villa, on the broadcast studios of state-owned Serbian TV, and on the 23-story tower housing his Socialist Party of Serbia and his daughter's radio and TV stations were going to undermine Milosevic's domestic support. "We are winning," NATO commander General Wesley Clark told the summiteers. "He is losing, and he knows...
This is partly why NATO officials have insisted that propaganda--along with the special police--is one of Milosevic's two keys to power. It is also why, in a brutal attempt to end that information imbalance last Friday, NATO blasted a Serbian state television station in Belgrade. A barrage of bombs hit the building before dawn, killing at least 10 of the estimated 70 people inside. But if the attack was brutal, it was also ineffectual. Serbian state TV was back on the air within six hours, broadcasting its regular fare, including a statement by the Serbian Information Ministry...
NATO's nonviolent attempts to redress that propaganda imbalance haven't got far. Assurances from British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that they have deep affection for the Serbs are falling on deaf ears amid the noise of war. "[The NATO propaganda message] sounds utterly cynical from this end," says a tired, frustrated onetime pro-Westerner in Belgrade...